Earlier today I was trying to add a new RSS feed to autopost to a blog using the current version FeedWordPress plugin (v 0707) in Wordpress 2.8.1
For some reason, it would not fetch the text of the post correctly. It was only retrieved a capital ‘A’. I did notice that the encoding was also showing as ‘unknown’ instead of ‘UTF-8′.
Its take a while but I’ve finally got the problem fixed and if you are having the same problem then this is what you do:
1. Go to the plugin home page – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/ and download the ‘development’ version of the plugin (currently v 0713).
2. Upload the plugin to your site.
3. In addition, I had to manually move the file rss.php from the feedwordpress/MagpieRSS-upgrade directory to the wp-includes directory due to my file permissions stopping the auto update.
Thats it. I’ve tested this on a couple of blogs and it seems to work fine.
Depending on your FeedWordPress settings, you may need to refresh the current posts on your blog as mine had all been messed up.
I’m not really sure where the problem lay. Possible, when I upgraded from WP 2.8 to 2.8.1, the FeedWordPress plugin had a bug.
According to the FeedWordPress site, there should be a new version of the plugin out at the start of August.
This worked for my version using the 0717 version as well. Thanks for the update.
Hi,
The problem that you ran into is what I’ve come to call the “upgrade downgrade” problem: FeedWordPress strongly encourages you to upgrade MagpieRSS to a newer and much more capable version than the one packaged with WordPress, but when you upgrade your version of WordPress, one of the files that you get in the upgrade package is a brand new copy of the old and busted MagpieRSS, which overwrites your upgraded version. In the most recent versions of FeedWordPress. I discuss the problem (from back when WordPress 2.5 was released) here: http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/blogs/radgeek/2008/04/18/upgrade-downgrade . Current versions of FeedWordPress should put up a loud warning in the WordPress Dashboard if you log in after inadvertently reverting your copy of MagpieRSS. Let me know if this failed to happen for you; if so, I’ll investigate a bit to try and figure out why you weren’t notified of the problem.
Eventually (as in, within about 2-3 releases from now), I intend to transition FeedWordPress from MagpieRSS to the much more advanced SimplePie package which is now included with newer versions of WordPress. But it’s going to be somewhat tricky because the existing filtering interface is based around MagpieRSS implementations, so I need to write a compatibility layer if I want to avoid breaking other people’s filters.
If you’re curious, the reason you got posts with just capital “A,” in particular, it was probably because the feed you were syndicating included MediaRSS extensions, and in particular a media:content element. (WordPress.com feeds, for example, include MediaRSS meta-data by default.) The old version of MagpieRSS had a bug in its parsing code that mangled post contents if it encountered any other element named “content,” even if it was in a different namespace. My customized branch of MagpieRSS eliminated the bug, but, as mentioned, when you upgraded WordPress it temporarily reverted MagpieRSS back to the old and busted version, which lost that upgrade.
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